CHILDREN are being invited to get their hands-on a landmark museum display.
Pupils from all of the county’s schools are being invited to touch, smell and explore the 10 vast rainforest tree stumps on display at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, in Oxford.
The initiative is part of a scheme to educate youngsters about climate change.
Oxford University’s Chancellor Lord Patten launched the ‘I Touched the Rainforest’ project on Saturday.
Among the first youngsters to climb on to the vast stumps were eight-year-old Rufus Townend and his sister Anna, six, both pictured, who live in Grandpont, Oxford.
Rufus said: “It was really exciting to go right up to the trees and see the roots.
“It is amazing, because the stumps are only a bit of the trees. The whole thing must have been massive.”
The stumps come from the Suhuma Forest Reserve in western Ghana, and were brought to the UK by artist Angela Palmer to symbolise the reality of deforestation and environmental destruction around the world.
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